"Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage" 1947 Post, Emily

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POST, Emily

[654] pp.

Funk & Wagnalls

1947

Seventeenth Printing

9 1/4" x 6 1/4"

One of Hollywood’s most inauthentic … Read more POST, Emily

[654] pp.

Funk & Wagnalls

1947

Seventeenth Printing

9 1/4" x 6 1/4"

One of Hollywood’s most inauthentic clichés is the etiquette snob—the hostess or guest who offers public rebuke to a fellow diner’s incorrect use of a fork or other technical faux pas. It is not good manners; it is not Emily Post. She hewed to the four S’s: sincerity, simplicity, sympathy, and serenity. While arcane rules change, the sublime four S’s never do. Hence, her book is as relevant today as it was when it first published in 1922. This revised edition includes new sections on manners for motorists and traveling by air.

“If there is one thing that a really well-bred man cannot overlook, it is cheapness of behavior [which has] nothing to do with lack of money.”

--Emily Post See less